2024 MTA Board of Directors Nominated

For consideration to Board Membership in 2024, the following members have been nominated for office. Anyone else interested  in joining the Board are welcome to be nominated. Just notify any Board Member of the position you are interested in and you will be added to the list.  The vote will be held during the annual Membership Meeting  at the Holiday Party in December 2023

• President: Susan Goodman

• Vice President: Warren Garrison

• Secretary: Bruce Williams

• Treasurer: Kenny Goodman

• Webmaster: Warren Garrison

• Events Commissioner: Kenny Goodman

• Membership Chair: Kevin Stewart

• Archivist: Hans Boerner

• Hot Courts Coordinators: Hans Boerner and Jeffery Gomez

• Parking Lot Chairperson: Rendell Camacho

• Members-at-Large: Kevin Hill, Christine Kizziah and Wayne Lippman

MTA Donates to Montclair Village Plaza

A couple of years ago, MTA made a donation in support of the design and construction of the new Montclair Village Plaza on Antioch Court between Mountain Boulevard and Antioch Street, less than ½ mile south of our home courts (Mountain @ Colton). Benefits to the community include:

• Improve safety on roadways for cyclists, pedestrians, and drivers

• Support small businesses and promote foot traffic and commerce

• Live music, community gatherings, and cultural events

Construction has been completed, and MTA’s commemorative brick has been installed in the new brick patio right outside Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt on the corner of Mountain Blvd and Antioch Court. We hope you’ll take a look the next time you’re in the area!

November 2023

• Minutes of the  October Meeting were not approved as there there was not a quorum at the beginning of the meeting

• Membership reported 2 new members with a total of 60 for the 2023 year

• Archivist had nothing to report. Hans is doing research to determine a better way to handle archiving

• Parking Lot - nothing

• There was considerable discussion re: the Holiday Party details.  This will

• be held at Davie Tennis Stadium in the clubhouse space. We have it reserved

• from 6:00 - 9:00 on Saturday December 2nd.  We decided that the general

• theme of the party would focus around games.  Dinner was proposed by Susan

• to come from options provided by Koja Kitchen.  These would be Korean bowls

• with beef, chicken or vegetarian main ingredients and customized sides when

• ordering.  They would be delivered to Davie at the time of dinner.

• Additionally we would have appetizers prior to dinner being served with

• wine, beer and sparkling water along with some form of dessert from Costco.

• Susan reported that she has signed a "final" revised agreement with the City

• of Oakland.  We are still waiting for the City to sign the same document.

• There are a few more insurance papers they are requiring which Susan is

• working with Gail McMillon (acting on behalf of Dana Riley) to resolve. 

•  Pursuant to Susan's email regarding the proxy vote for USTA Board member

• elections we had 6 ayes, 1 abstained and 1 no-response.  The paper work was

• mailed to USTA Norcal to reflect our decision to allow the Secretary to vote

• on our behalf.

• Kenny reported on past events.  Bruce Williams hosted our last event of

• mixed doubles. There were 9 players with two rounds of 4 games and 3 rounds

• of 8 games.  Generally lots of tennis non-stop and everyone had a good time.

• Kevin reported on the Montclair Team Tennis event. There were 9 players as

• well and despite Kevin's team not being able to win the event everyone had

• fun.  Kevin agreed that the format was good and that he would be willing to

• host a couple more next year.  

• Our final playing event of the year will be the Turkey Tournament hosted by

• Kenny.  Currently there were 8 folks signed up but as of the time of

• recording these minutes there are now10 participants.  This event will be

• held on November 18th.

• There was no additional topics by the participants and Susan adjourned the

• meeting at 8:29 

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• Minutes were taken by Kenny Goodman in absenteeism of secretary Bruce Williams

MTA Board of Director meetings are held at 7:00 pm on the first Wednesday of at least every other month (at least for now, meetings are held via online video), with special meetings held on an as-needed basis as required by the organization's needs. Non-board members are welcome to attend; please email info@montclairtennis.org for details and an invite.

Every December, MTA holds an annual General Membership Meeting, where we recap the outgoing year, look forward to the next year, and accept nominations for and then vote in the next year's MTA Board of Directors.